Pistol Opera (DVD)

Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 2001 / Director: Seijun Suzuki / Actors: Makiko Esumi, ... more

Pistol Opera (DVD) ... Masatoshi Nagase ... / DVD released 23 October, 2006 at Yume Pictures / Features of the DVD: PAL / Seijun Suzuki, the legendary Japanese director probably best known for the cult hit BRANDED TO KILL, returns with this movie about a league of killers of hire. Something of a sequel to BRANDED TO KILL, the film stars Makiko Esumi as a killer named Miyuki Minazuki but known as Stray Cat the number three assassin in Japan's professional killer guild. As in its predecessor, number three is contacted by the guild and ordered to kill number one. Knowing that if she succeeds she will become number one, Miyuki embarks on a difficult and dangerous mission to kill the elusive number one. Told in Suzuki's trademark style that blends a fractured narrative with lurid and heavily stylized action sequences, PISTOL OPERA is another brilliant work from a great director.

Newest Review: ... in the courtyard before Stray Cat’s home (and you may be thinking why is there a chaise-lounge in the courtyard – if so: I ... more

... have no answer – it’s one of those inexplicable things in the film that you cannot answer but somehow never matter – in fact it adds to the film. Don’t worry, I’ll amplify later). What news from the Agent? Having established Stray Cat’s refusal to simply follow orders and kill without discretion, the Agent makes Stray Cat (and the viewer) aware that there is a war going on within the Guild and that it is being initiated by Number 1 Killer, Hundred Eyes, who no one knows the identity of but the veiled Agent. And ...more

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Pistol Opera [DVD] [2001]
Release Date: 2006 - 10 - 23, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,

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Pistol Opera (DVD): Let the showdown commence... (1925 words)
by - written on 20/11/06 (Very useful, 51 readings)
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The chances are you’ve not heard of Pistol Opera or its octogenarian director: Suzuki Seijun. If you have then you might have an idea of what you might be getting yourself into. But let’s backtrack to the sixties for a moment, it being by far Seijun’s most prolific period. He worked for the studio Nikkatsu, where like so many other directors he churned out Yakuza (gangster) movies by the dozen, most of which were generic. Except: Two truly great pop-art yakuza movies (well, the first one is a yakuza movie anyway) and both which are worth seeking out on their own merit. The first: Tokyo Drifter, the story of a lone yakuza adrift ... Read the complete review

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